Definitions for guts

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guts gut

Spelling: [guht]

IPA: /gʌt/

Guts is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in guts (gstu).

Definitions for guts

noun

1. the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
2. guts. the bowels or entrails. Informal. courage and fortitude; nerve; determination; stamina: the inner working parts of a machine or device:
3. the belly; stomach; abdomen.
4. the substance forming the case of the intestine; intestinal tissue or fiber:
5. a preparation of the intestines of an animal, used for various purposes, as for violin strings, tennis rackets, or fishing lines.
6. the silken substance taken from a silkworm killed when about to spin its cocoon, used in making snells for fishhooks.
7. a narrow passage, as a channel of water or a defile between hills.
8. Slang. a gut course.

Idioms

1. spill one's guts, Slang. to tell all; lay oneself bare:

adjective

1. Informal. basic or essential: based on instincts or emotions:

verb (used with object)

1. to take out the guts or entrails of; disembowel.
2. to destroy the interior of:
3. to plunder (a house, city, etc.) of contents:
4. to remove the vital or essential parts from:

Origin of guts

before 1000; Middle English gut, guttes (plural), Old English guttas (plural), akin to gēotan to pour

Examples for guts

One or the other of them would have to be left on the pavement, emptied of his guts like a rabbit.

I could hear the little motors in his guts humming with joy as he booked Alex.

Neither Smith nor Marx can carry us far into the guts of globalized financial capitalism.

He loves Marilyn Monroe because she “had the guts of a lion.”

For a supposedly macho male, the two traits he likes best in women are a sense of humor and guts.

I got my 'ead chipped like a egg; I've got pneumonia too, an' my guts is all out o' order.

You let me hear of anybody else, and I'll cut the guts out of him!

I've got the guts, and I've got the money; and I don't sit still on it.

Soon enough, I felt my own guts rebelling and stepped out into the crystalline Andean night.

In the end, it was not Leonard who had the guts to press and release—it was Evelyn Aron.